QA Automation Architect

The Company

Recently named the 7th Best Workplace in Ireland and the 12th best workplace in Europe by the Great Places To Work Institute. Globoforce is a fun, fast paced environment with a winning culture. The company is co-headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, and Dublin, Ireland.

As the global leader in cloud-based (SaaS) social recognition solutions, Globoforce helps its clients dramatically increase employee engagement and retention, strengthen company culture, and manage and measure employee performance.

Over the past 10 years, Globoforce has reinvented employee recognition from tactical-based programs to social and strategic programs that energize employees and lead to bottom-line business results. This new approach provides HR and business leaders with data and insights that can reveal the true performance and influence of employees across an organization. Today, some of the largest and most admired brands and companies rely on Globoforce to transform employee performance, including Symantec, Intuit, JetBlue, and InterContinental Hotels Group.

The job:

To work as a QA Automation Architect and Product Owner of the QA Automation team.

Main responsibilities of the role:

Define Globoforce automation strategy: Agree Automation team development roadmap, agree Automation team short and long term goals according to team development roadmap, Track team progress towards goals set-up for Automation team, adjust/tune the strategy and goals depending on the achieved results

Represent the team: Being the Product Owner of the Automation Team enable the team to work efficiently, including process improvements; On-going education.

Scrum teams: Lead the process of engaging scrum teams in automation process. Work with Automation and scrum teams on necessary education and knowledge sharing. Organize and maintain community of practice involving all engineers who are interested in automation.

Technical responsibilities: Initiate, develop and maintain automation framework and framework enhancements, Investigate and apply new tools to the current test framework, Work very closely with QAs and developers to review functional automation test coverage to ensure QA goals are met

Required Skills and experience

Proven experience defining and leading the implementation of QA Automation Strategy, including definition and measurement of key success metrics, and management of Automation Strategy rollout within the development organisation

3+ years working as QA Automation Architect (or similar), including proven experience of designing and implementing Automation Testing frameworks and high level release planning

10+ years Information Systems experience including major system implementations particularly in the online services industry.